LYSniA'CHIA EPHEM'ERUM. 
WILLOW-LEAVED LOOSE-STRIFE. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
PRIMCLACF./E. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Spain. 
4 feet. 
July, Sept. 
Perennial. 
in 1730. 
No. 982. 
The generic name here used is that of a king of 
Thrace ; see Xo. 564. 
Tliis is one of the handsomest of the Lysima- 
chias; its leading stems, and its axillaiy branches, 
e.xtending and flowering for a considerable length 
of time, become very ornamental planted in the 
flower borders, with other herbaceous subjects of 
different colours. It was formerly better known 
than at present, having now become scarce, and 
is not often found even in the collections of the 
best amateur cultivators. 
The leaves of Lysimachia ephememm have a 
peculiar sort of dotting on their under surface ; on 
the young leaves this is not so easily detected, but 
on the older it may be seen even with the naked 
eye. It grows freely in any good garden soil, and 
asks for no peculiar treatment, but may be divided 
at the root for increase either in the spring or au- 
tumn. If, however, more rapid increase than this 
mode will permit, be desired, cuttings may be 
made of the stems, whilst young, and they will 
strike in silver sand, under a bell-glass, with a little 
bottom heat. 
